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Jennifer features in Care Calendar

Jennifer Harries of Llanelli Photographic Society has had a picture selected for the Care & Repair Wales Calendar 2017. Her photo features in March and is of Dinefwr Wood, Llandeilo.

The calendar is currently on sale for a very worthwhile cause and for just £5 each. Copies be purchased here and from local Care & Repair Agencies across Wales.

A bit more about the calendar: ‘A charity which helps older people in their homes has launched its first calendar to raise funds to help more people live independently at home. The calendar features beautiful photographs of Wales which were chosen through a competition run with charity staff, families and friends. It was produced with support from British Gas and all the funds raised from the calendar will go directly towards supporting more people across Wales.

Chris Jones, Chief Executive of Care & Repair Cymru said: “We’re very excited about our first charity calendar and are grateful for the sponsorship from British Gas. This support will allow 100% of the money raised from sales to go directly to help older people across Wales to live independently in warm, safe and accessible homes.

“Care & Repair is often described as “Wales best kept secret” and we hope this calendar will help to spread the word to the general public of the difference Care & Repair services make to the lives of older people.” Care & Repair Cymru is a Wales based charity with Care & Repair Agencies offer free help and support to older homeowners and those in private rented accommodation across Wales to maintain, repair and adapt their home

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A Scam Warning

I like a few of you have been receiving requests for funds from our club accounts to be sent to an unknown site. They are rather amateurish and are unlikely to succeed but we thought it worth warning you. Be careful as these scams are getting more and more often.

This like a lot of other scams we all get appear to be getting more frequent. If you receive one of these requests send the information to phishing@ “your internet provider”.  

On a more pleasant note may I congratulate all the members of our clubs who have gained honours this year. Also a huge thanks to all the clubs who have both represented and helped the WPF this year.

I wish you all the very best for Christmas and the New Year.

Happy snapping to you one and all.

Vince Penticost, President WPF.

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Inn Focus win 2016 Stanley Chell

Aberdare  Camera club once again provided a warm welcome and a very enjoyable afternoon for the 2016 Stanley Chell competition.

Congratulations go to the Inn Focus Group who came away with a well-deserved win closely followed by Ebbw Vale camera club with Gwynfa in third place.

21 clubs took part with 88 top quality prints being shown.  The judge, Rob Mitchell, MA Photography kept everyone entertained providing a thorough and concise critique.

Results         Full Scores

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AWPF Results, 6th November 2016

A huge thank you goes out to all of this year’s judges Nick Jenkins (Chairman), Margaret Collis, Jenny Hibbert, David Lingham and Brian Coleman who were all greatly impressed by the fantastic standard of work presented for assessment this year.

Once again the work presented at Talbot Green Community Centre was amazing, which resulted in an 80% pass rate. There were 26 entries, 25 in prints and 1 DPI which resulted in 21 AWPF awards being achieved, 20 for print panels and 1 for DPI.

Many congratulations to the successful candidates, who were:

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Pixels 2016 Results – The Battle of the Vales

Pixels 2016 took place at Talbot Green Community Centre on Saturday 5th November 2016 and was a tense and exciting but low scoring affair. It was a particularly good day if you have the word ‘Vale’ in your club name. The Vale Photographic Club (69 points) were very narrow winners ahead of Ebbw Vale Camera Club (with 67 points).

The Vale photos were: Cycle Racing by Paul Tromans (15), Aim by Terry Verrinder (20), Male Shelducks Fighting by Nick Craddock (16) and Not Me Ref by Mike Davies (18). Click on the links to see the photographs.

Third place went was shared by three clubs on 65 points, Cwmbran, Tenby & Gwynfa.

The judge was David LOWE ARPS DPAGB from Smethwick PS who gave an excellent critique of all the entries. He was concise, humorous and informative. David also selected Red Fox in Snow by Andy Teesdale of Clwb Camera Caernarfon as Best Monochrome Photograph and Not Giving Up by Huw Fairclough of Ebbw Vale Camera Club as Best Colour Photograph.

Gwynfa Camera Club would like to thank everyone who attended the competition and all the clubs who entered. Without you, this would not be possible.

Click here to see the final Pixels 2016 score sheet.

We also wish to thank everyone from team Gwynfa who helped out on the day and Christine Langford for her help in publicising the even to the NWPA clubs.

Huge thanks also to caterers ‘The Old Bakery, Llantrisant’, and all those who donated raffle prizes including Fotospeed, Permajet and Crystal Vision Locks and Trophies (who donated a lovely tankard presented to David Lowe and provided the beautiful Pixels Trophies).

A slideshow of all the photographs entered can be seen below.

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In Loving Memory of Jan Williams

It is with deep sadness that Western Valley Camera Club announces the passing of Jan Williams, one of our long standing members and a friend to all.  Jan was indeed the backbone of our club and was dedicated to her role as our secretary, a dedication that she carried forward into her position with the Welsh Photographic Federation.

Jan was always there to provide help and support to anyone, she enjoyed nothing more than sharing her experience and knowledge with others but also took great pleasure in learning new skills from her fellow photographers.

Jan was enthusiastic, generous with her time and nothing was ever too much trouble. The space that she has left both in WVCC and the WPF will be very hard to fill but we will all be left with fond, happy memories of a lovely lady and a dear friend.

All of our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.

Jan’s funeral is on Wednesday 9th November, but the time has been changed to 12 o’clock at the  Gwent Crematorium Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran, NP44 2BZ.

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2016 Celtic Challenge Results

The WPF hosted the annual Celtic Challenge Competition at the Glamorgan Holiday Hotel Porthcawl recently. Visitors from 5 of the Federations who competed enjoyed an abundance of splendid photography, and a masterclass in how to judge a competition by Martin Fry FRPS, APAGB, AFIAP, AV-AFIAP. The Republic of Ireland won the Competition, and won 2 of the “Best in” awards, for colour print and projected image.

It was generally agreed that the event was a great success and well put together. Every print was projected  on to a large screen through Live View so everyone could see them in detail, and the projected images were displayed using DiCentra which put titles and scores on screen.

In the evening we enjoyed a splendid 4 course meal at the Hotel and welcomed Madeline Moon MP as a special guest. The Meal was preceded by entertainment by the Morlais Male Choir.

Here are the overall results and here are the individual results for monochrome prints, colour prints and PDI’s.

The photograph below shwos Vittorio Silvestri, President Northern Ireland Photographic Federation, receiving the Celtic Challenge Trophy from Madeline Moon MP on behalf of the Irish Photographic Federation

Martin Nagle (CELO)

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